Muslims like me don’t have theological beef with evangelicals. It’s the prejudice against us that’s the problem.

Source: The Washington Post

By Ismail RoyerFebruary 12

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Last month, my wife and I joined a small group of Muslims and thousands of Christians at the annual March for Life in Washington to call for an end to what we believe is the unjust murder of unborn children in America. My wife’s hijab attracted interest, but we didn’t feel out of place among marchers, many of whom were white evangelicals.

Despite our deep theological differences on other issues, we were at home in the company of fellow believers.

Yet, the Muslim presence at the March is perennially small, even insignificant. In fact, Muslims also decline to join forces with conservative Christians on other traditional social causes such as opposing same-sex marriage.

I cannot speak about ‘the position of Ahmadiyyah on this issue’. Just my personal view: Every sexual activity is a personal and private thing. What you do in private is between you (and your partner I suppose) and Allah. What is the need to publicize your activity? I am sure many so-called ‘gays’ are attending all kinds of mosques, including Ahmadiyya Mosques, but they do not publicly claim that ‘this needs to be a ‘gay’ friendly mosque’.